mplayer vs. xine

[Chadley Wilson]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 07:31, Brian C. Huffman wrote:
> I'd like to have a show of hands of who's for xine and who's for
> mplayer.  Which one is the better choice for a complete multimedia
> solution?  I've used both and have to say that I've had problems with
> both.  
> 
> With xine I've been able to play most all formats with the exception of
> Windows media (although I know the codecs are out there). I've gotten
> the gxine frontend which includes a plugin for mozilla.  Unfortunately
> I've had many many crashes of mozilla / xine when using the plugin.
> 
> With mplayer (which I've just recently installed), I've had better
> stability (although it has crashed on inline movies), but I don't know
> the extent of the formats that it can play.  Also I haven't seen a
> frontend to mplayer so far....I assume that one does exist.
> 
> Thoughts?  Experiences?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Brian

I personally prefer Xine I had a ball installing I have downloaded
plugins and codecs from the net,
Occasionally on some very old DVDs it goes crazy with display settings,
Otherwise I have  over 60 movies on my disk all of which rely on various
windows media codecs, all play.
Another thing with Media Player 9 it almost always wants to download a
new codec every time I have a new clip or Movie Xine seems happy to use
what it got.
Mplayer I could not get it to work after 100 shots at it.


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Chadley Wilson <chadley at pinteq.co.za>